050-0003/01 – Discipline on Hazards (NoN)
Gurantor department | Department of Civil Protection | Credits | 4 |
Subject guarantor | prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. RNDr. Pavel Danihelka, CSc. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | | |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2010/2011 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | FBI | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The science of danger and risk as scientific discipline. Basic concepts of safety, security, danger, risk and their nmanagement. Development of concepts in time and socio.cultural context. Risk ethic. Gnoseology of terms. Systematic and system approaches, general rules. Relation man-machine, philosophy and physology of risk management.
Teaching methods
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Summary
Basic concepts of security and hazards, risks and their management, threats, dangers, disasters. Historical development of terms, socio-cultural context of understanding and solving the risks. Hazard treatment, hazard as a philosophical category. The terms hazard, security, risk, danger, etc., from a gnoseological viewpoint. Systematic and system approach to the solution of security, general rules, tools and methods of its study. Discipline on security as a multidisciplinary scientific discipline, contribution of natural, technical and social sciences to the problem solutions in the area of security. Specific areas of security – healthcare and epidemiology, working environment, environment, social risks, terrorism and war conflicts. Crises, their principle, origin, development and solution. Crisis paradoxes as development factors of a society. Crisis management, internal stability and resistance of society.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
RBDM (Risk Based Decision Making) Guidelines: Volume 1-4. http://www.uscg.mil/hq/cg5/cg5211/E-Guidelines.asp. US Coast Guard.
Aven, T, and Renn, O.: Risk Management and Governance. Concepts, Guidelines and Applications. Heidelberg and New York (Springer 2010)
Jovanovic, A.S.; Renn, O. and Schröter, R.: Social Unrest. OECD Reviews of Risk Management Policies. Paris (OECD Publishing 2012)
Major Hazards and Their Management ; by Geoff Wells; Institution of Chemical Engineers, Rugby, UK, 305 pages.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
seminary
E-learning
Other requirements
Interest in the development of skills of independent thinking, asking the right questions, further studies of hazard and risk theory. Use and combine knowledge and skills previously obtained by studying the FBI.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Basic concepts of safety and hazard, risk management, threat, catastrophe.
2. Ethics and coping with hazard, danger as a philosophical category.
3. The concepts of risk, safety, risks, threats, etc., from the perspective gnoseologic.
4. A systematic and systemic approach to security, the general rules of tools and methods for its study.
5. Specific areas of security - health and epidemiology, working environment, environment, social risks, terrorism and war conflicts.
6. The crisis, principle, the creation, development and solutions.
Conditions for subject completion
Conditions for completion are defined only for particular subject version and form of study
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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